nf-core/newsletter, June 2026

Blog posts

• Why parameters are strings all of a sudden — A guide to mitigating typing issues in strict syntax
  26 May 2026 · by nvnieuwk

  

Pipeline releases

• nf-core/bacass v2.6.0, v2.6.1 (5 May 2026)
• nf-core/bamtofastq v2.2.1 (13 May 2026)
• nf-core/mhcquant v3.2.0 (21 May 2026)
• nf-core/pairgenomealign v2.2.3 (23 May 2026)
• nf-core/pixelator v4.0.0, v4.1.0, v4.1.1 (29 May 2026)
• nf-core/proteinannotator v1.1.0 (7 May 2026)
• nf-core/proteinfamilies v2.3.0 (6 May 2026)
• nf-core/raredisease v3.0.0 (11 May 2026)
• nf-core/rnafusion v4.1.1, v4.1.2 (20 May 2026)
• nf-core/rnaseq v3.26.0 (7 May 2026)

Upcoming events

• Talk #animal-genomics: June Meeting — 17 Jun 2026
  Miguel Pérez-Enciso (Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), UAB campus, Spain)
• Talk Bytesize: nf-core newsletter — 23 Jun 2026
  Phil Ewels, Seqera
• Talk Bytesize: Parameter typing in Nextflow strict syntax — 30 Jun 2026
  Nicolas Vannieuwkerke, Center for Medical Genetics Ghent

In case you missed it

Recent events

• #animal-genomics: May Meeting — 20 May 2026 (Talk )

Earlier blog posts

• Welcoming new members to the nf-core core team — 29 Apr 2026
• nf-core/tools - 4.0.0 — 28 Apr 2026
• Maintainers Minutes: January - April 2026 — 27 Apr 2026
• Introducing nf-core docs version 2 — 10 Apr 2026
• Making nf-core/configs strict syntax compliant — 5 Mar 2026

New pipelines & proposals

New pipeline repositories

• nf-core/bacmodel (in development) — Systems-based bacterial functional modeling pipeline
• nf-core/dartseq (in development) — Pipeline for m6A detection in RNAseq data

Pipeline proposals

From nf-core/proposals.

• nf-core/regulatory_reporting — Accepted (# 133)
• nf-core/immunodesign — Accepted (# 124)
• nf-core/midas — New (# 142)

Other proposals

• New RFC: `AGENTS.md` and AI steering document — New (# 141)
• New RFC: Restructure pipeline resource labels into orthogonal CPU / memory / time axes — New (# 139)